Issue 1 (January/February 2022) Archives - Page 7 of 7

‘DUBLIN CASTLE HAS FALLEN!’—COMMEMORATING THE ‘HANDOVER’

By John Gibney Two days before the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in London on 6 December 1921, Arthur Griffith wrote to Eamon de Valera in Dublin, telling him that David Lloyd George and the other British negotiators had told him that, if he and his colleagues were to sign it, ‘they would hand us … Read more

History and ‘the inevitable’

Exactly a century ago, on 7 January 1922, after nine days of acrimonious debate, Dáil Éireann narrowly approved, by a vote of 64 to 57, the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Interestingly, that vote did not legally ‘ratify’ it; that had to await a vote, boycotted by anti-Treaty TDs, of the previously moribund ‘Parliament of Southern Ireland’ on … Read more